The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1882.

Kumara Times, Issue 1743, 2 May 1882, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1882.

The polling yesterday resulted in the motion for obtaining a loan for introducing a water supply to the Borough of Kumara being lost by 13 votes—the numbers being 47 against, and 34 in its favor, with 4 informal votes. It is to be regretted that a work of such unquestionable utility as a water supply to a town like Kumara should have been defeated, as its greatest value would be not so much for domestic purposes but in cases of fire, when a plentiful water supply is invaluable, but as the burgesses in their wisdom have decided that such a supply shall not be obtainable, we only hope that the time may be long distant ere it will be wanted for the purpose of combating the fire demon. Our report of the Local School Committee will be found more than ordinarily interesting, if is only for the purpose of studying the circular sent from the Secretary of the Central Board of Education re deducting expenditure of the Board. A meeting of the Hospital Committee will be held this evening at Mr Nicholson’s offices, Main street. Scarlatina is raging in Reefton and several deaths are reported among children. Mr Feehan one of the members of the Reefton County Council had a narrow escape from death on Wednesday. He and another were cutting wood when his companion let his axe slip and struck Mr Feehan on the cheek, splitting his nose and narrowly escaping the eyeball. The ranges this morning were covered with heavy snow. The lion, secretary of the Grey River Hospital begs to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of £lO from Messrs Ames and Ryan, Kumara, being the balance of money collected for the benefit of the late Robert Brown, for some time an inmate of the Hospital. The Zealandia, with the San Francisco mails, arrived at Auckland yesterday, after making the quickest passage on record. Irvine and party yesterday struck payaide gold in their shaft at Woodstock rush. Their prospects are from one to two grains to the dish, with four feet of wash on the main bottom. The claim is considerably to the right of what is termed the fancy line, and is the third below Leslie and party's claim. The Ohinamen are ex. pected to bottom to-day or to-morrow, and if they get payable gold the field will be much extended. The Otago Daily'Times says A somewhat remarkable case was referred to by his Honor Mr Justice Williams during argument in the Supreme Court yesterday. The facts of it were that a young lady was travelling, alone in a railway carriage in

America, and the conductor ventured to give her a kiss. Action for assault was taken against the company owning the railway, and after the case had passed through several courts, the plaintiff was finally awarded a thousand dollars damages. The San Francisco Post says that a promising young brood of gallows birds has been laid hands on by the police in Vienna, and that their disguises were most ingenious devices. Smoothfaced boys were dressed up as Sisters of Charity, who went begging from house to house for charitable purposes, while the elder ones stimulated the travel-stained, dejected look of wounded soldiers returning from Bosnia. One good-looking young scamp, nick-named the “Cardinal,” was great as a tonsured priest, who went about soliciting alms for Szegedin sufferers, and whose handsome black eyes acted magically in opening the purse strings of sentimental old maids and married women between thirty-five and forty. When their nest was suddenly pounced upon by the police, a whole collection of costumes and disguises were found. An individual recently from Ireland has related his experiences to the Taieri Advocate as follows “I lived for about 15 years in New Zealand, and never got into trouble of any kind ; but I took a fancy to go Home. I hadn’t been there long before I, out of cu -iosity, attended a couple of Land League meetings. I was arrested, thrown into gaol, and kept there for three weeks. When I got out I thought the best thing I could do was to come back to New Zealand. Here I am, and I won’t go Home again in a hurry !”